Description
the reverse breakfront top above three drawers and four inlaid panelled doors, the central doors with bracket supports, the whole raised on two plinths, the central lock stamped * TONKS & SON/ REGISTERED/ APRIL 16TH 187*
Dimensions
220cm wide, 98cm high, 74cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Gere, Charlotte and Whiteway, Michael 'Nineteenth Century Design', London 1993, p. 113-4, pl. 125 and 126
Note: Victorian designer Charles Bevan was a prominent 19th century English furniture maker and designer who created critically acclaimed pieces of ornate furniture in the Gothic Revival style. He worked with numerous furniture designers and his pieces were written about in various catalogues and periodicals, and can now be found in both private and public collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Bevan's works were shown at international exhibitions such as a bookcase designed for James Lamb shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, and two cabinets at the International Exhibition in London in 1872, which he designed for Gillows & Co.